Legacy Food Storage is a food and drink brand headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The largest package Legacy Food Storage sells weighs 1,662 pounds. According to the Salt Lake City company, its 6,480 servings will feed six people three meals a day for a full year, at $16,500. The product page pitches it to anyone planning to shelter relatives, or "whoever makes it to your place."
Legacy runs from an office that its contact page says is not a retail location, and it does not make the food itself. Its manufacturing partner is Honeyville Grain, which the company says has made food products since 1951 and sold food storage ingredients for more than 30 years. Legacy says the plants that pack its meals are certified SQF Level 2 for food safety.
The company's real fixation is oxygen. Each pouch gets a double nitrogen flush before an oxygen absorber goes in, a process Legacy calls proprietary. It claims an average residual oxygen level of 0.11 percent, against an industry standard of 2 percent. That number underpins its claim of a shelf life of up to 25 years.
A 2014 review on SurvivalBlog found the four-serving pouches generous and the Spicy Corn Chowder a family favorite. The Chicken a la King was rejected by everyone at the table, mostly over the mushrooms and soy protein. That is a useful thing to learn before the 25 years start.
The company behind the label has worn a few names. Utah's business registry lists it as LFS Products, LLC, once called Tabkini, LLC, and it also trades as Mega One. The name on the bucket is the one built to sit on a shelf until it is needed.
Legacy sells a 350-serving bucket of ground coffee for long-term storage, and it comes with a French press.
